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A column of Shi'ite militia fighters arrived at a military base near Ramadi on Monday as Baghdad moved to retake the western Iraqi city that fell to Islamic State militants in the biggest defeat for the government since last summer. An eyewitness described a long line of armored vehicles and trucks mounted with machine guns and rockets, flying the yellow flags of Kataib Hezbollah, one of the militia factions, heading towards the base.

Over 20,000 trapped in no man's land at the mercy of advancing ISIS horde after the fall of Ramadi Thousands are stranded between ISIS-held Ramadi and the city of Baghdad Refused entry to Iraqi capital because of concerns they could be militants ISIS has reportedly taken control of a village between Ramadi and Fallujah Indicates the terror group are moving eastwards towards the Iraqi capital Meanwhile Shia militias are said to be moving to head off ISIS Homeless families 'face danger from all sides', Human Rights Watch said

While helping Iraqi forces to break the Islamic State's siege of Amerli, the US Air Force supported a deadly Shia militia that is responsible for killing hundreds of US soldiers. The Shia militia, known as Asaib al Haq, or the League of the Righteous, has also captured and executed US soldiers and British citizens in the past. Iraqi forces, supported by "paramilitary forces" such as the League of the Righteous, advanced on Amerli late last week and reached the town by Aug. 31, The Washington Post reported. By Sept. 1, the siege, which lasted for more than two months, was...

Shia militia arrest top Ba'athist Rory McCarthy in Najaf Saturday September 20, 2003 The Guardian They came after midnight for Karim Ghaith. Outside his two-storey sandstone house in the holy city of Najaf, they shouted out his name, then opened fire. After a gun battle lasting most of the night, Mr Ghaith, a high-ranking member of the former Ba'ath party, was held and taken for questioning on his suspected involvement in attacks on US troops. It looked like another of dozens of raids since the war to capture senior Ba'athists. But the men who detained him early this month were...